Dominators’ correct thinking presupposes that the people do not think.
Evidence
Why do the dominant elites not become debilitated when they do not think with the people? Because the latter constitute their antithesis, their very reason for existence. If the elites were to think with the people, the contradiction would be superseded and they could no longer dominate. From the point of view of the dominators in any epoch, correct thinking presupposes the non-thinking of the people. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 427
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth testing in the reader’s own redesign: where do the reader’s defaults still presuppose the other party’s non-thinking?